Course Calendar - Tentative
English Literature I – Fall 2009
Week 1
Mon: 8/17
Wed: 8/19
Fri: 8/21
Syllabus – Students must print off class syllabus from class site at
http://kellimcbride.com/2543.htm and bring to class Wednesday. Assessment Pre-Test
Syllabus discussion
Sign up for Oral Presentations (OP); Reading journals and in class discussion expectations
Week 2
Mon: 8/24
Wed: 8/26
Fri: 8/28
The Middle Ages (1-21); Middle English Lyrics (The Cuckoo Song; Alison; My Lief Is Faren in Londe;
Western Wind;I Am of Ireland)
Beowulf intro
Film
Week 3
Mon: 8/31
Wed: 9/2
Fri: 9/4
LABOR DAY – NO CLASS
Beowulf (26-48);
Beowulf (48-69)
Week 4
Mon: 9/7
Wed: 9/9
Fri: 9/11
Beowulf (69-97); Take home quiz on Beowulf due
OP: The Pearl Poet and the Medieval Romance; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SGGK); (p.
160-178 – to line 785)
No class – I’ll be at the OKC Storytelling Festival
Week 5
Mon: 9/14
Wed: 9/16
Fri: 9/18
SGGK continued;
SGGK (p. 178-196 – to line 1690)
SGGK continued
Week 6
Mon: 9/21
Wed: 9/23
Fri: 9/25
SGGK (p. 196-213); Take home quiz on SGGK due
Finish SGGK; OP: Feudal Society in Europe
OP: Geoffrey Chaucer; Chaucer and Canterbury Tales
Week 7
Mon: 9/28
Wed: 9/30
Fri: 10/2
“General Prologue” (l. 1-223)
“General Prologue” (l. 223-446); Take home quiz on General Prologue due
“General Prologue” (l. 446-end); Reading Journal 1 due (from Beowulf to writing to Chaucer’s
“General Prologue”)
Week 8
Mon: 10/5
Wed: 10/7
Fri: 10/9
OP: Women in the Middle Ages; “Wife of Bath’s Tale”
“Wife of Bath’s Tale”
“Wife of Bath’s Tale”
Week 9
Mon: 10/12
Wed: 10/14
Fri: 10/16
Middle English Lyrics (435-37); OP: Sir Thomas Malory; Hand out take-home essay exam 1
Sir Thomas Malory & Morte d’Arthur (438-56)
FALL BREAK – NO CLASS
Week 10
Mon: 10/19
Wed: 10/21
Fri: 10/23
In-class exam 1; Take home essay exam 1 due
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The 16 Century (485-511); OP: The Renaissance Perspective on Virtue; The Sonnet
OP: Edmund Spenser; Edmund Spenser (705-07; Amoretti #1, 54, 65, 75)
Week 11
Mon: 10/26
Wed: 10/28
Fri: 10/30
OP: Sir Philip Sidney; Sir Philip Sydney (947-48) & Astrophil & Stella (975) #1, 31, 41, 108)
OP: William Shakespeare (1058-61) & Sonnets # 18, 29, 55, 60
Sonnets # 116, 130, 138; Elizabethan Drama
Week 12
Mon: 11/2
Wed: 11/4
Fri: 11/6
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (Act 1)
Film; Take home quiz on the sonnet due
Film
Week 13
Mon: 11/9
Wed: 11/11
Fri: 11/13
Twelfth Night (Act 2); Take home quiz on Shakespeare and the theater due
Twelfth Night (Act 3)
Twelfth Night (Act 4)
Week 14
Mon: 11/16
Wed: 11/18
Fri: 11/20
Twelfth Night (Act 5)
The Early Seventeenth Century (1235-1257); OP: John Donne
John Donne (1260-62) & “The Sun Rising” (1266); Holy Sonnet #10 (1296)
Week 15
Mon: 11/23
Wed: 11/25
Fri: 11/27
“A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” (1275-76); Donne’s “Meditation 17” (1305-06)
THANKSGIVING BREAK
THANKSGIVING BREAK
Week 16
Mon: 11/30
Wed: 12/2
Fri: 12/4
OP: Andrew Marvell; “To His Coy Mistress;” OP: John Milton;
John Milton (1785-89); TBA; OP: Irony and Satire in the 17th Century; TBA
OP: Jonathan Swift; “A Modest Proposal” TBA
Week 17
Mon: 12/7
Wed: 12/9
FINALS:
OP: Samuel Johnson; TBA
In-class exam 2; Reading Journal 2 due
Monday, Dec 14th, 12:00-1:50; Take home exam 2 due; post-assessment exam